Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Open-source electronics platforms are becoming very popular in our daily activities. Arduino- and Raspberry-compatible modules have been applied for a wide range of applications from do-it-yourself (DIY) to industrial projects. Using open-source electronics platforms as educational tools for teaching engineering and science at universities is undeniable. Influences of open-source electronics platforms in technological renovations and social impacts have been well recognized.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather the most recent development and applications of open-source electronics platforms. We invite all papers with novel contributions in principles, development and applications of open-source electronics platforms with, but not limited to, the following topics.

Aim and Scope:
Service robots are becoming enabling assistive technologies as co-workers and helpers in human-robot interactive social environments. However, the first and the most challenging issue to deploy service robots in human populated environments is how to guarantee human safety and comfort in human-robot shared workspaces. Human physical safety is concerned with how to maintain the minimum physical distance between robots and human while human psychological safety implies that robots are not allowed to cause stress and discomfort to humans when working with or around them. Human risks and their inconveniences when working in an interactive social environment essentially come from unavoidable attack of the robots due to malfunctioning operations caused by either misunderstanding and misinterpreting information extracted from sensing and perception or failures of path planning and motion control. Hence, such functional components and their incorporation play crucial roles on securing human physical and psychological safety in human-robot interactive social environments.

This half-day workshop aims to create a forum for researchers who are interested in human safety and comfort in human-robot interactive social environments. We welcome open discussions on all aspects of guaranteeing human safety and comfort in human-robot interactive social environments with, but not limited to, the following topics:

Current state of the art of human safety and comfort in human-robot interactive social environments

moreBots: System Development and Integration of an Educational and Entertainment Modular Robot, Van Tung Le and Trung Dung Ngo, the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS2017), Ottawa, Canada, October 05-07, 2017.

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Our PhD candidate, Mohammed Iqbal successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Hierarchical Structure and Control of Multi-agent Systems". His PhD thesis is a collection of his published and submitted papers, which can be seen in the lab's publication.

Iqbal came back his home country for a lecturer (Assistant Professor) position at the International Islamic University.

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Our PhD candidate, Xuan Tung Truong successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Socially Aware Robot Navigation System". His PhD thesis is a collection of his published and submitted papers, which can be seen in the lab's publications.

Truong came back his home country for a lecturer (Assistant Professor) position at the Le Quy Don university.